Calibrating an apparatus supporting pluggable optics

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9735876-B2
Application number	US-201514796787-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2015
Priority date	Jul 10, 2015
Publication date	Aug 15, 2017
Grant date	Aug 15, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and an apparatus for partitioning calibration data into line card and pluggable properties and processing the partitioned data using a processor of the line card. For example, calibration information corresponding to components in the pluggable module may be stored on the pluggable module and transferred from the pluggable optical module to the processor on the line card. The processor may combine the calibration information received from the optical module with calibration information corresponding to properties on the line card to obtain system calibration information. The system calibration information may be used to configure one or more components used to process electric signals sent to or received from the optical module.

First claim

I claim:

1. An apparatus, comprising:
an electrical connector configured to connect an optical module to the apparatus; and
at least one processor configured to:
receive, from the optical module via the electrical connector, first calibration information corresponding to a first plurality of elements of a communication channel between the apparatus and an optical input and output of the optical module;
combine the first calibration information with second calibration informat…

Assignees

• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Duthel Thomas

Classifications

• H04B10/40 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B10/278

  Electricity · mapped topic